THE DU PSYCHIC: McCain's next attack ad: "Brave US soldiers die as uppity Obama unwinds in Hawaii."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Obama ready to unwind in Hawaii

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-campaign7-2008aug07,0,3244814.story



The presidential candidate says he needs a break. A poll indicates half of voters welcome his time off.
By Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 7, 2008

ELKHART, Ind. -- Everyone seems ready for Barack Obama to take a vacation -- his family, foreign leaders, even a fair number of voters.

After marathon bouts of campaigning, Obama is about to relent. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is heading off for Hawaii on Friday for a break that will be his last before the November election.

Weighing the political risks of leaving the continental U.S. in the middle of the campaign, Obama conceded that the timing was not the best. But he told reporters aboard his campaign plane this week that he didn't have much choice. He's visibly tired. Gray hairs are sprouting.

Perhaps more worrisome for Obama, a new poll shows voters may be tiring of him. So he will fulfill a popular workplace dream: a weeklong getaway on a sunny island. Apart from a fundraising event Tuesday, Obama's plan is to rest, not troll for votes, aides said.

Arrangements are being made to accommodate reporters (at a cost of $11,500 each for the week), but the campaign is putting out word there probably will be no real news.

"During the middle of a campaign you're always worried about taking some time off," Obama said, standing in the aisle of his campaign plane. "That's the nature of the job. I've been going pretty much straight for 18 months now. So we're going to take the time."

Obama has been keeping a relentless schedule. He took time off in the Virgin Islands in March, but leaped right into the general election campaign after defeating Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in June.

Fortified by daily workouts at the gym, he looks fit. But his face seemed drawn as he addressed a town hall meeting here Wednesday, the toll of a week spent parrying Republican rival John McCain's charge that his antidote to the energy crisis is tire inflation.

[Renew Deal]

1. I'm worried that the pukes will spend next week taking cheap shots.

Where is McNuts next week?

[eleny]

2. At one of his many houses?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Counting his "non-tax-deductible" donations from super patriot Faisal Abdullah

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6604163&mesg_id=6604163

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Dude, Mars is opposite Uranus today. Smirk." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer

"And tomorrow is, um, like 08-08-08, so we republicon occultists are, um, like in the KNOW (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) about your pSycIc pReDICKshunS. Smirk."

- Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*


* Courageously channeled by Ye Olde Spiral Hawke, who consumed the requisite 1/2 lemon-creme doughnuts as a prophylactic to protect his Precious Bodily Fluids before penetrating the Vast Netherworld of Republicon Occultism.

[27inCali]

5. When the Pigs attack him

we shall see who the effective surrogates really are.

This would be a good time for Biden, Richardson and Baye to step up to the fight and start knocking some heads.

[WinkyDink]

6. Shades of wind-surfing!

[Mabus]

7. Oh no! Wasn't Paris Hilton going to go to Maui for a tan?

:banghead:

[grillo7]

8. Nice clairvoyance, Uri. And count on it... n/t